Jean-Philippe Estebenet

Atonality is to music what lyrical abstraction is to painting : a breakaway from the classical form, a stroll away from the realms of consciousness.

Playing with colours as others play with the forces of nature to elaborate metaphores, Jean-Philippe Estebenet takes along the art of painting into an extatic and crazy dance where the content, which once was the physical medium to express form, now takes over and cries out its right to become the subject of any shapeless figure - without fixed contours, or essence.

But, in this moving, floating world without links, the notion of order prevails. It springs out from the knocking ebbs and imposes itself as if, from the elements on the canvas which at first look appear separate, could sprout one absolutely consistent organisation - only one chasmose.

As in the case of maelströms and cyclones, all Jean-Philippe Estebenet’s paintings have a gravity center around which the debris of coalescence rotate.Still, as in the example of the latest research in quantic physics, this artist unveils through his work a universe beyond the visible world : not so to speak the stable world of atomes, but the spirals and the swirls of subtil matters which are the basis of any phenomenom about to take ...

Main exhibitions

2025
 Espace Astarac, Seissan
Galerie La Mosaïque , Saint-Jean
2024
 Salon du Fousseret, Le Fousseret 
 Galerie Mage, Toulouse
2020
 Artplu Gallery, Shangaï (Chine)
Galerie 3+8, Berlin (Allemagne)
2018
 Salon Grands Axes, Carcassonne 
Galerie Nou’Arts, Auch
2017
Galerie Can Daifa, Ibiza (Espagne)
Centre d’art contemporain Artplu, Shangaï (Chine)
2016
Smart Aix, Aix-en-Provence
4th International Mail Art Exhibition, Nyiracsad (Hongrie)
Salon de St Antonin, Saint Antonin Noble Val
Espace Gibert, Lézignan-Corbières
2015
Salon de Valence d’Agen, Valence d’Agen
Artoulous’expo, Labège
2014
Tournandart,  Tournefeuille
Salon d’Automne de Sorèze, Tarn
Artempo, Cugnaux
Artoulous’expo, Toulouse Labège
 2013
Salon des artistes méridionaux, Toulouse
2012
Arts District Gallery, Santa Fe (Etats-unis)
2011
Salon des artistes méridionaux, Toulouse
2010
Las Vegas arts district, Las Vegas (Etats-Unis)
Hyatt Chicago ballroom, Chicago (Etats-Unis)
2009
Exposition Galerie Daniel Vignal, Toulouse
Spazio tempo, Caserta (Italie)
World art expo, Brea (Californie)
2008
Exposition Galerie Daniel Vignal, Toulouse